He’d always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they’d had the most practice not dying.
“That’s because the biblical use of the word saint has nothing to do with human competence and everything to do with divine grace.”
― Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
― Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
“My central claim in this book is that these two trends—overprotection in the real world and underprotection in the virtual world—are the major reasons why children born after 1995 became the anxious generation.”
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
“It’s one thing to make war for your country, your family, even in pursuit of glory. It’s another to believe that the people you fight are embodiments of evil and must be destroyed for that. I want this peninsula back. I want Esperaña great again, but I will not pretend that if we smash Al-Rassan and all it has built we are doing the will of any god I know.”
― The Lions of Al-Rassan
― The Lions of Al-Rassan
“Our hope isn’t that nothing bad will ever happen to us. Or that everything that does happen to us is “the will of God.” Our hope is that no matter what happens to us, Jesus is back from the dead, and anything is possible.”
― God Has a Name
― God Has a Name
“If we are as complex as He’s made us to be, then surely we are much more sinful than we can imagine. And for that reason, when God comes to restore, He must do it entirely.”
― Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been
― Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been
Bibliophage Book Bingo
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Welcome to Bibliophage Book Bingo! We will have a bingo-type card with various types of books in the spaces. Throughout the year, everyone will read b ...more
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